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Your spreadsheet-database can run on hardware you already own
Where a row lives stops being philosophical the first time procurement asks.
The hard part of leaving monday.com is not the data. It's the formulas.
A CSV export gives you the answer and loses the question that produced it.
Appdor vs Airtable: the same job, a different bill and a different address
Two products that look alike until you ask where the rows live and what the second year costs.
The seat minimum is a pricing decision, and you are paying for it
Six people, ten seats. The gap between those numbers is not a discount you failed to ask for.
What happens when the vendor changes the deal
SmartSuite withdrew its free plan in January. The workspaces on it expired in July.
We read 666 complaints about four competitors. Here is our scoreboard.
142 complaints, mapped against what we actually ship. The interesting column is the one that says "partly".
An AI off switch that actually stays off
Seven surfaces covered, seven not, and the list of the seven we have not covered is in the repository.
Your data should outlive my company
What "own your data" costs to mean, and what I refuse to build.
Your Airtable formulas are the migration. Everything else is a CSV.
A CSV gives you what the formula last said, not what it means.
"A backup you can't restore from isn't a backup, it's an archive"
We can restore the database in under ten seconds. We still cannot restore the file the admin panel gives you.
One tenant took the whole connection pool
Row-level isolation held perfectly. The tenants still took each other down.
The container was running software nobody built
No log line, no failed request. The app simply became an older app.
The marketing page that loads nothing from anyone else
A landing page usually tells on its vendor before the pricing page does.